Celebrity Babies Named After Places

What three words helped these famous parents pick names for their pipsqueaks? Location, location, location.

The 1990s saw a wave of celebrity babies with city, state, and country names. Some of the most memorable: Memphis, U2 front man Bono's daughter, born in 1991; Ireland, actors Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger’s daughter, born in 1995; and Brooklyn, Victoria and David Beckham’s son, born in 1999. But the new millennium has its fair share of famous children named after places, too. Click through to see cosmopolitan kids with names from Europe, Africa, and even the U.S.

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Egypt

While you may have expected singer/pianist Alicia Keys and record producer/DJ Swizz Beatz to choose a musical moniker for their firstborn, they instead went with an African nation for the name. Their baby boy, Egypt Daoud, arrived on the scene in October 2010. His talented mommy allegedly fell in love with the country and its history while performing there a few years earlier.

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Savannah

No, Desperate Housewife Marcia Cross isn’t a Southern belle by birth — she’s a native New Englander. So what’s Savannah’s origin? The mom reportedly predicted she’d one day have a daughter with that name. When she became pregnant, her hubby Tom Mahoney separately suggested they use that name, even before they knew their baby-to-be was a girl. One thing they didn’t count on: that they’d need another girl’s name right away. Savannah’s fraternal twin sister is called Eden. (Savannah's pictured here in Mom's arms, with Eden tagging along.)

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Bronx

Posh and Becks aren’t the only stars who found inspiration in a Big Apple borough. Singer Ashlee Simpson and her former beau, Fall Out Boy rocker Pete Wentz, chose an unusual celebrity baby name for their sole son: Bronx Mowgli. While the middle moniker clearly came from a character in The Jungle Book, the estranged couple hasn’t come clean about why they gave a nod to New York with their little guy’s first name.

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Indiana

You won’t find too many Missouris and Minnesotas in the celebrity baby set, but one Midwest state was a muse for two handsome actors. Casey Affleck (fellow actor Ben’s brother) and his now-wife Summer Phoenix (actor Joaquin’s sister) welcomed a son, Indiana August, in 2004. Yet he was born in neither Indiana nor August — the May baby actually arrived in Amsterdam. In 2011, Indiana became the name for a celebrity baby girl: actor Ethan Hawke’s daughter with wife Ryan Shawhughes.

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Alabama

Speaking of states, another popular name among famous parents suggests they’re looking to the south. In 2005, Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and his then-wife, model Shanna Moakler, named their second born, a daughter, Alabama Luella. Sopranos star Drea de Matteo and country singer Shooter Jennings followed suit in 2007, naming their first daughter Alabama Gypsyrose. If she were born two years later, her name may instead have been Utica: That’s the New York town where Shooter proposed to Drea.

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Milan and Morocco

With eight children under his (heavyweight championship) belt, famous big family man and former boxer Mike Tyson was bound to have a child named after a place. In fact, he has two, both with his third wife Lakiha Spicer: daughter Milan (pictured here), born in 2008, and son Morocco, born in 2011. A few months later, the North African nation inspired a pair of pop-icons-turned-parents: Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon named their son Moroccan, after the Moroccan-themed room where Nick proposed in Mariah’s home. (Moroccan’s twin sister, Monroe, is named after a celebrity: Mariah’s idol, Marilyn Monroe.)

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Dallas

The Texas city isn’t just the title of an old TV show, it’s also the name of at least two celebrity kids. American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino named her second child Dallas Xavier, a son she gave birth to in 2011. But she wasn’t the first famous face to choose that moniker. In 2002, Limp Bizkit front man Fred Durst welcomed a son named Dallas.

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Georgia

The Peach State was a perfect pick for actors William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman when it came to naming their second daughter, born in 2002. Georgia’s middle moniker, though, was another story: She shares her second name, Grace, with big sister Sophia. Georgia was also on the mind of Amy Ryan from Gone Baby Gone and The Office. In 2009 she and now-hubby Eric Slovin chose it for their only child’s name. Rebecca Gayheart and her McSteamy husband, Eric Dane, went along the same (state) lines when they dubbed their second daughter Georgia Geraldine in 2011.

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